Biography:Anna Lysyanskaya

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Short description: American cryptographer

Anna A. Lysyanskaya is an American cryptographer known for her research on digital signatures and anonymous digital credentials.[1][2] She is the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.[3]

Early life and education

Lysyanskaya grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine , and came to the US in 1993 to attend Smith College,[2] where she graduated in 1997. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2002.[4] Her dissertation, Signature Schemes and Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Design, was supervised by Ron Rivest.[5]

Career

After completing her doctorate, Lysyanskaya joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.[4] She was given the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professorship in 2023.[3]

She is a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, first elected in 2012, and re-elected for two additional three-year terms in 2015 and 2018.[6] She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) through 2021.[7]

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